Thirty Two Members braved the awful stormy weather to enjoy a social gathering with wine, soft drinks and nibbles before the screening.

The Film was well received with an average score of 8.8 out of 10 which was better than the IMDb score of 7.7.

Some of the comments received were as follows:-

• Except for the animal cruelty 🙂I loved it, thank you
• Very funny & entertaining, great actor!
• Very good thank you, loved music
• French taking micky out of Americans! Usually other way around! Amusing.

This film was massively well received. We had 39 attending and every single one gave a score of 5!

Comments included:

• very emotional
• thoroughly touching
• very powerful
• amazing movie, thank you
• wish there was a Nicolas in war torn Gaza
• very emotive film, what more can be said?
• so moving and beautiful film
• best film I’ve seen for a long time
• best to date!
• very moving!

Only 34 members attended this showing which was a shame as it was very well received with a rating of 8.2 /10 (IMDb 8.4). Nearly half the attendees considered it as excellent.

Here is a selection of the comments given.

1. Great I’d never seen this before. I’m glad I have now. Lead actors gave excellent performances.
2. A good film for the halloween season! Gloria was quite scary!
3. Wasnt sure about B&W film but really good. What’s changed in all these decades? Few making it to stardom, women discarded after a certain age & dreams never fulfilled by the many.
4. Loved it!
5. A classic ( 2 comments about this)
6. Oldie but goodie
7. Very much of its time
8. Swanson played a good crazy/from another era, cannot relate to it.